Sunrise of the Spirit
Yoga, Reiki, and Therapeutic Energy and Bodywork to bring you back to the Lightness of your Being!
During a particularly challenging time in my life, a dear friend shared this poem:
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
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01/09/2024
None of us are as young as we used to be. 👵🏼When you’re body’s feeling out of sorts, therapeutic massage could be just the thing to get you back on that bike, or so you can relax into a comfy night’s rest 🛌 DM for more info!
10/08/2024
One of the great photos from this year’s Pan Mass Challenge! 💆🏻♀️🙌🏼🚲💖
MMA - Pan-Mass Challenge Mass Maritime Academy (MMA) in Bourne - Saturday, August 3, 2024 - PMC 2024
26/04/2024
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" In order to understand the dance,
one must be still.
In order to truly understand stillness,
one must dance."
🧡 Rumi
13/01/2024
Looking for ways to unwind this winter? Treatment sessions are available (including a great first time friends and family discount!) AND, over the holidays I created a soothing “Sweet Nutcracker” bath soak 🌰🌲🙌🏼 with salt, baking soda, almond oil and essential oils of peppermint and cedar. Sweet enough to soften even the toughest nut and the perfect way to settle in for a long winter’s nap! ❄️😴💝
Message me for more info!
07/12/2023
Hello Sunrise of the Spirit followers and supporters, I have a very exciting announcement! I have felt called to return to hands on somatic work as a fulltime career and I intend to share my gifts with everyone who needs it.
To start, I'm offering a "friends and family first time special" for anyone who's never had a chance and would like to try a session with me. I have a comfortable and private treatment space in my home in Holyoke or we could talk about me traveling to a space that feels comfortable for you! Please reach out for more information. If you aren't able to take up this offer today, please follow Sunrise of the Spirit for future deals and/or share with loved ones!
28/04/2023
Local peeps! I am teaching at 11:15 every Friday morning in Greenfield. Come check it out!
ATTENTION - Freedom Yoga will be starting at a NEW TIME beginning Friday May 5th, at 11:15AM in the RPX! Get on your stretchy clothes and join us!
28/01/2023
Hello there Sunrise of the Spirit friends! 🌅
I’m excited to announce I’ll be back teaching yoga IN PERSON Fridays at 11AM beginning on February 3, 2023 at the RECOVER Project in Greenfield! This is a FREE offering for members of the RP and all of our loved ones in community. Which means ALL of YOU are INVITED!
Please reach out if you have any questions or need more info and I’d LOVE to see some of you (and your friends) there! 💖
28/01/2023
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. no artist is pleased. there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a q***r dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."
- Martha Graham.
14/04/2021
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05/03/2021
To all my friends in "complementary" healing modalities, or any practitioner who's interested in being more intentional about integrating consent into your work - you do NOT want to miss this training! Please don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have questions or need more info, and since this is a virtual training, you can join from anywhere in the world!
Trauma-Informed Training for Body Workers The People’s Medicine Project is hosting a two-part series on trauma-informed practices specifically for body workers in the wellness world.
Be Love
During a particularly challenging time in my life, a dear friend shared this poem:
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
-- from Dream Work, by © Mary Oliver
Shortly after that, a few friends and I woke early to watch the sun rise on our last day at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in the summer of 2006. As if orchestrated, the clouds and colors swelled and shifted. Completely captivated, I watched as the strips of clouds moved to form a diamond in the sky. It looked like a childhood craft made of two sticks held in a cross and wrapped in multicolored yarn – a God's eye. I felt as if I were in a vacuum, the sound drained from around me, and I involuntarily held my breath as two simple words flooded my ears and filled my head and heart:
BE LOVE
Just as I began to absorb the weight of these words, a flock of wild geese flew across the sky. In that moment I knew precisely the plan for my life. I suddenly felt MY place, in the family of things. Sunrise of the Spirit is my attempt to share a few of the gifts I have received from the abundant Universe. And it is my absolute pleasure to try to “be love” every day. As Maya Angelou said:
“When you get – give, when you learn – teach.”